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Democracy’s Majesty and 2016’s Indignity

After Tuesday, life will go on, and things are so bad they almost have to get better.

Evangelicals Take Center SAGE

Hillary Is a Cheater

Not too long ago, Democrats were the ones claiming elections were stolen.

Obama’s Legacy Items

We have had awful presidents in the past, but nothing that compares with what Barack Obama has managed to do to us over the past eight years. Just thinking about some of his misdeeds, things like Cash for Clunkers; Operation Fast & Furious; Solyndra and other costly green energy scams; the pullout from Iraq and the predictable rise of ISIS; lies about Benghazi and the defeat of al Qaeda; the slowest economic recovery since the 1930s; pushing the reset button with Russia after promising to be even more flexible after the 2012 election; shredding the Constitution and legislating with his pen and his phone; the flouting of federal immigration laws; appointing the likes of Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court; siding with the scummy likes of Black Lives Matter and against the police; rolling out the red carpet for thousands of Muslims certain to include any number of jihadists intent on killing Americans; and defunding the military; is like taking a leisurely stroll through a chamber of horrors.

Calamity Impending for the Clintons

Terror Warning

This Is the Least Important Election of Our Lifetimes

Every candidate or publication that’s made comparable declarations since that time regarding the presidential contest being the “most important” election of their “lifetime” or their “generation” or “in history” or “ever” is completely full of it.

Hillary Clinton and the Extreme Abortionist Culture

On the abortion issue alone, I believe that Christians should vote for Donald Trump as the only possible candidate to defeat the march of the death culture Hillary Clinton would lead if she were to be elected.

Indictments Coming?

There are extraordinary new developments that could well impact the election.

Thinking Impeachment

Every possible damaging headline is falling on Hillary Clinton’s head as the country staggers toward Nov. 8.

Cyrus the Great Rides Again

Whoever gets elected, Trump or Clinton, will be elected by God’s own will. He is sovereign. Christians should trust God.

Plenty of Question Marx About Millennials

Media Blackout Exposes Corrupt Media

While most of America was transfixed by Game 7 of the World Series, Fox News Channel was doggedly pursuing a new story: The FBI’s probe into pay-for-play schemes at the Clinton Foundation and the State Department has been far more expansive than anyone reported so far and has been going on for more than a year. FBI sources even warned there could be indictments down the road.

Is Team Clinton Booting the Election?

In my Nov. 1 column, I looked at the presidential election through the lens of the old children’s radio show “Let’s Pretend” — examining how things would look if it turned out that Donald Trump ends up winning. That would have required lots of pretending until recently. Two weeks ago, Hillary Clinton led Trump by 6 percent in the RealClearPolitics average of recent polls. That lead is now 1.9 percent. RCP state polling averages then had Clinton ahead by 128 electoral votes. Now the estimated count is 273 to 265.

Final Days, Awful Choice

Rule of thumb for a presidential campaign where the two candidates have the highest unfavorable ratings in the history of polling: If you’re the center of attention, you’re losing. As Election Day approaches, Hillary Clinton cannot shake the spotlight. She is still ahead in the polls, but you know she’s slipping when she shows up at a Florida campaign event with a week to go accompanied by the former Miss Universe, Alicia Machado. The original plan was for Clinton to pivot in the final week of the campaign from relentless criticism of Donald Trump to making a positive case for herself. Instead, she reached back for a six-week-old charge that played well when it first emerged back then but now feels stale and recycled.

If Voting Is Sacred, Early Voting Must Go

Let’s work backward. Less than a week before the election, the Wall Street Journal and Fox News’ Bret Baier reported that the Clinton Foundation has been under investigation for “pay-for-play” allegations for over a year — and that the Department of Justice may have been trying to monkey-wrench the effort.

Obama Should Stop Appropriating Southern Culture

President Obama was in North Carolina the other day. He was dropping his “g’s” and throwing around southern slang like he was slinging hash browns down at the Waffle House. He started off by talking about how much he “loves me some North Carolina.” Well, bless his pea-picking heart. The president tossed out the word “holler” and then said it was time to get down to “bidness.” Not business, but “bidness.” The White House seems to think all of us southerners walk around talking like Boss Hogg from the Dukes of Hazzard.

Save the Children, Vote Pro-Life: There’s No Middle Ground!

On Nov. 8th, we will choose from two of the least popular presidential candidates in history — our nation is more polarized than ever and there will be major repercussions regardless of who wins. Over the past year, we’ve seen political discourse turn into a political war. We’ve watched crises unfold within our communities and watched battles ignite between civilians and police. Lately, it feels as though brother is pitted against brother, and that terrorism, racism, and hatred have infiltrated our society and our lives. But, how did we get here? All of these are symptoms of the real problem — which is that we have lost respect for the dignity of every human life.

Decision 2016: Do We Still Hold These Truths?

In 1776, Thomas Jefferson, the chief architect of the Declaration of Independence, penned one of the most iconic sentences in our country’s history: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” This election asks one chief question: Do we still hold these truths to be self-evident? Do we still believe that the Creator, not the government, gives us the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? We must choose not between two candidates but between two ideas: Do we believe that an “all-knowing” government should manage our freedoms or that an all-knowing God has granted us our freedoms in the first place?

Has Economics Failed?

It is especially painful for me, as an economist, to see that two small cities in northern California — San Mateo and Burlingame — have rent control proposals on the ballot this election year. There are various other campaigns, in other places around the country, for and against minimum wage laws, which likewise make me wonder if the economics profession has failed to educate the public in the most elementary economic lessons. Neither rent control nor minimum wage laws — nor price control laws in general — are new. Price control laws go back as far as ancient Egypt and Babylon, and they have been imposed at one time or other on every inhabited continent.